Author: Ed Panek
Date: 06:28:41 01/16/01
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On January 15, 2001 at 20:47:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 15, 2001 at 15:53:33, John Dahlem wrote: > >>ALL deep fritz owners now seem to play ONLY CT 13's with their new custom book's >>that win 95% of the time. It's ridiculous. I would love to see deep fritz play >>games, but instead it's just using the worst opening of all time (1.h2 2.h5 as >>white) because the owner's know that it will result in a win. The frustrating >>thing is that the games aren't the same,just the end result,so the admins won't >>do anything about it. >> >>Will the patch fix this so the deep fritz's will have to EARN their rating by >>out playing instead of out-booking tiger? >> >> >> >>John > > >CT 13 is violating a _major_ principle of chess-playing. "castle if you >want to, or if you have to, but _not_ just because you can." It is castling >right into a horrific attack. Over and over and over and over. > >lots of rating inflators running around. Always have been. Now they have >found a way to pick on an automatic program and grossly inflate their >ratings... > >nothing new, unfortunately. But I must admit, the h4-h5 (white's first two >moves) idea is cute and anti-computer to the max... Bob, I must say I agree with the castling into an attack statement. Often times I see Tiger castle while autoplaying Hiarcs or Crafty 16.6 and its eval is already -.6 :(. CT13 does well if it can make it out of the first 20 moves with an even eval. Ed
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